Nicola
Corbishley (soprano)
Nicola sang with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain
from an early age and is a music graduate of The University of Liverpool.
She is now based in the South East of England and continues her
vocal studies with Irene Drummond.
Forthcoming performances include a return to the
Glasgow West End Festival with Scottish Voices, including works by
Sally Beamish and Edward McGuire, and Handel Belshazzar in
the BBC Proms with the Choir of the Enlightenment under Sir Charles
MacKerras.
James is a QC in practice in Edinburgh. Very many years ago he was a Choral Exhibitioner in Cambridge. After graduating and coming to Edinburgh he studied singing with Winifred Busfield, and interpretation with Paul Hamburger and many others; but turned to law instead.
Singing remained a great passion and he was fortunate to be involved with many friends in much music making, both chamber, choral and operatic. One particularly happy and long association was in the 1980s with John Grundy, Joan Busby and others in the Moray Consort.
Like some others in the choirs for the Matthew Passion, his first understanding of the work came from singing in the Edinburgh University Singers under Herrick Bunney in the 1970s and hearing soloists such as Peter Pears, Margaret Marshall and Rodney McCann.
Sharon has sung with many of the Scottish choral societies, her oratorio repertoire ranging from Bach to Britten. She also sings lieder and opera, most recently singing the title role in Bizet's Carmen. Sharon has a particular interest in Jewish song which she occasionaly performs with the Klezmer group Celtica Schmeltica . She has also recorded some Jewish song for German radio. Sharon's concerts with the Chapterhouse singers began with a performance of Purcell's The Fairie Queen. Following that she was involved in a Russian themed evening in which she sang Tchaikovsky¹s Moscow Canata and excerpts from Songs from Jewish folk Poetry by Shostakovitch. Further concerts with the Chapterhouse Singers have included Handel;s Dixit Dominus, and Bach's St John Passion.
